Ticket for use in merchandising campaigns



May 26, 1925.

w. T. RAYMOND TICKET FOR USE IN MERCHANDISING CAMPAIGNS Filed Oct. 12, 1925 8 AFTER 5 Patented May 26, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TICKET FOR USE IN MERCHANDISING CAMPAIGNS.

Application filed October 12, 1923. Serial No. 668,214.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, WALTER T. RAYMOND, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Tickets for Use in Merchandising Campaigns, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertainsto make and use the same.

This invention relates to devices that are used in merchandising campaigns of the kind where a premium or prize is given by a merchant or manufacturer to one of a large number of purchasers of merchandise.

The main object of my invention is to eliminate the possibility of a particular user obtaining the premium in a merchandising campaign of the kind referred to through dishonesty or collusion between said purchaser and the merchant or manufacturer who offers the premium.

To this end I propose to issue a ticket or check to each purchaser that contains the representation of a clock face or numbers or words which denote a certain fraction of time, and use a. clock to determine which purchaser is entitled to the premium.

Figure 1 of the drawings illustrates the form of ticket or check that I prefer to use.

Figure 2 illustrates a clock that is used in conjunction with said tickets; and

Figure 3 illustrates another form of ticket that may be used.

In carrying 011 a merchandising campaign with my improved apparatus a clock A, preferably an eightday clock, is set in operation, and thereafter, each person who makes a purchase at the store where the campaign is in progress is given a ticket or check B which contains indicia that represents a certain fraction of time. The inicia. on the various tickets B represent different fractions of time and there are no duplicate tickets. Usually the complete set or group of tickets will comprise 1440 tickets, as there are l l lO minutes in a day and the tickets will. be differentiated from each other by fractions of one minute. For example, if tickets of the kind shown in Figure 1 are used each ticket will have printed thereon a clock dial 1, a minute hand 2, and an hour hand 3, the hands of the various tickets being positioned at various points on the dials. I prefer to con- The tickets are issued to the persons who i make purchases while the campaign is in progress and when the clock A runs down and stops, the holder of the ticket which represents the minute and hour that the clock stopped is entitled to the premium. As it is impossible to tell the exact minute that the clock will stop, each purchaser has an equal chance of winning the premium.

Instead of connecting the tickets together so as to form a long ticket strip, the tickets can be formed by separate pieces of cardboard or other suitable material that are not connected together. Furthermore, while I prefer to use tickets that have clock faces printed on same, it is obvious that the same result could be obtained by words or numbers printed on the tickets, as shown in Figure 3.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A group of checks for the purpose described, each of which is provided with a representation of a clock face, and clock hands, the clock hands of the different checks being disposed difierently so as to represent different fractions of time.

2. A group of tickets for the purpose described, each of which is provided with a representation of a clock face, said tickets being distinguished from each other by fractions of one minute.

3. A ticket strip of the character de scribed divided into a-number of sections, each of which contains a clock dial and a minute and an hour hand, the hands of the various tickets being differently arranged so that no two tickets represent the same fraction of time.

-WALTER T. RAYMOND. 

